Latest breaking news and updates from across Africa.
AFDB
AfDB’s planned investment in ATIDI shows why guarantees, insurance and de-risking tools are moving to the centre of Africa’s infrastructure and development-finance agenda.
AFRICA
African governments are beginning to regain investor attention, but the next phase will test whether reform credibility can survive debt pressure, political costs and tighter scrutiny over financing tools.
AFRICA
PFL Nigeria points to a wider shift in African sport, where combat sports, broadcast distribution and entertainment economics are becoming part of the continent’s commercial sports market.
AFRICA
Higher fuel prices are again testing African airlines, exposing the link between geopolitics, jet fuel supply, ticket prices and the continent’s fragile air-connectivity ambitions.
BUSINESS
enza has been awarded a Payment Service Provider Enhanced Licence in Ghana, strengthening its position in West Africa’s digital payments and fintech market.
BUSINESS
Kora has highlighted the growing importance of payment infrastructure to Africa’s trading ecosystem, pointing to the role of digital payments in cross-border commerce and business growth.
AFRICA
President Yoweri Museveni has assured the World Health Organization of Uganda’s readiness to contain Ebola, while calling for stronger regional collaboration on public health threats.
AFRICA
Morocco’s pitch to Indian companies reflects a wider contest among African industrial hubs to become platforms for Europe-Africa supply chains.
AUTOMOTIVE
South Africa’s proposed automotive incentive changes would treat selected battery and industrial minerals from SACU and SADC countries as local content, linking the country’s EV strategy to regional mineral beneficiation.
AFRICA
South Africa’s anti-immigrant violence is becoming a regional governance and diplomacy test, raising questions about migration policy, public order and African integration.